18 November – 23 December

Escalade Escape Game

Booking Required

Explore Geneva’s old town in a playful race against time, following clues through narrow streets, winter corners, and historic squares. This outdoor escape game blends legend, watchmaking, and local history into a lively team adventure. Armed with tablets and gadgets, you solve riddles, uncover hidden fragments, and outsmart the Savoyards in a route designed for families, friends, or colleagues. The experience is collaborative, energetic, and full of surprises, with the old town’s atmosphere adding extra depth to every step.

Les Bastions,
1204 Genève

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Photo Credit: Abdessamad CHLIH

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Jardin botanique

More than a garden stroll. Geneva’s botanical gardens bring together plants from around the world across rockeries, greenhouses, thematic gardens and remarkable living collections. Come for the botany; stay for a slow wander among some seriously beautiful plants.

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Saturday 14 November, 09:00

Deep Time Walk in Geneva

Outdoor

Jardin botanique

Walk through 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history in an immersive journey that blends science, reflection, silence, and sensory experience. Set within the botanical garden, this 18-stop path invites participants to feel the scale of deep time with head, heart, and body. More than a simple walk, it offers a slow, thought-provoking encounter with the living world, awakening a renewed sense of connection to the planet and to possible futures.

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Borges Literary Walk in Geneva

Cool Stuff Outdoor

Multiple locations

Walk through the cityscape that shaped Jorge Luis Borges, following a guided route that traces streets, squares and quiet corners tied to his life and work. The experience blends steady urban walking with close attention to architectural details and literary echoes, where fragments of story and memory surface amid façades and public spaces. A reflective, communal rhythm guides small groups, inviting participants to sense how the city’s textures and atmospheres are woven into Borges’s literature.

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5 – 6 December

48th Escalade Race

Outdoor

Parc des Bastions

Charge through winding historic streets under crisp winter air in a lively, mass-participation running festival. The event blends buoyant community energy with fierce elite competition, creating surges of pace, cheering crowds, and a celebratory rhythm. Runners experience a compact, urban route that rewards speed and focus, alternating between bursts of effort and moments to soak the shared excitement. Accessible and welcoming to many while offering high-level performances, it celebrates movement, solidarity and sporting spirit in a festive winter setting.

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19 – 20 December

88th Geneva Christmas Cup

Outdoor

Lac Léman

An enduring open-water challenge that brings swimmers into cold, clear lake waters for a traditional festive swim. Participants test endurance and technique across marked routes while supported by safety teams and a lively shore atmosphere. The event emphasizes communal spirit, physical challenge and connection with nature, with varying distances to suit different levels. It’s a bracing, energetic race that rewards preparation, resilience and the shared thrill of swimming in open water.

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Saturday 30 January, 10:00

Oh! The Birds — Winter Visitors of the Lagoon

Outdoor

Bibliothèque des Eaux-Vives

Explore the lagoon’s edges on a brisk winter walk, scanning reed beds and open water for migrating and wintering waterbirds. This gentle outing moves along sheltered shorelines and shallow inlets where flocks gather, offering close encounters with varied plumage and bird song. The atmosphere mixes focused observation with collective curiosity, as participants share sightings and quiet moments of discovery. Suitable for all fitness levels and families from age 10, the walk balances easy terrain with rich natural surprises.

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